Overview

• Mobile and fiber connections returned on Wednesday, though residents in Kabul, Herat and Kandahar reported slow speeds and lingering limits.
• NetBlocks measured national traffic at roughly one percent of normal during the outage.
• The cutoff halted flights at Kabul’s airport and disrupted banking, customs and trade across the country.
• Local reporting attributed the order to Taliban senior leadership seeking to curb “immoral” online activity, while officials also floated infrastructure problems.
• The United Nations warned of significant harm to humanitarian operations and women lost access to online schooling and remote work, with local reports noting a one‑week deadline to disable 3G/4G services.